This unit will run from March 31st to May 4th. My students will meet for 50 minute classes every day of the week. In the first two and a half weeks of the unit, we will be reading Julius Caesar in class as our primary text. Reading for Julius Caesar will only be done in class in order to allow students the opportunity to explore the text together. Supplementary texts such as Plutarch’s The Life of Caesar, NY Times articles on an all female production of Julius Caesar and “The Final Diary of John Wilkes Booth” will be used throughout the unit to provide students with different perspectives and background information on the play. The first week, we will also assign Literary Circles. Literary Circles meet every Thursday to discuss the novel that those students are reading. There are five novels to choose from, so logically there are five groups of students. Students are expected to have completed their novels by the fifth week, finishing up their novels and discussing their final projects. A schedule of their reading will be discussed the first week of meeting. Students will divide up their novels into sections and pace themselves, using Thursday deadlines as their guides. When we are finished with Julius Caesar I will be using Divergent by Veronica Roth as a segue out of Shakespeare and into Young Adult Literature. The final week of classes will serve as a "cool down" from the material. Projects will be presented at the end of the unit. **Calendar does not account for Spring Break. Should this occur, it will be expected that the students complete their Literary Circle readings in that time and meet for the final week of Literary Circles with their novels 3/4 finished.
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This unit will run from March 31st to May 4th. My students will meet for 50 minute classes every day of the week. In the first two and a half weeks of the unit, we will be reading Julius Caesar in class as our primary text. Reading for Julius Caesar will only be done in class in order to allow students the opportunity to explore the text together. Supplementary texts such as Plutarch’s The Life of Caesar, NY Times articles on an all female production of Julius Caesar and “The Final Diary of John Wilkes Booth” will be used throughout the unit to provide students with different perspectives and background information on the play.
The first week, we will also assign Literary Circles. Literary Circles meet every Thursday to discuss the novel that those students are reading. There are five novels to choose from, so logically there are five groups of students. Students are expected to have completed their novels by the fifth week, finishing up their novels and discussing their final projects. A schedule of their reading will be discussed the first week of meeting. Students will divide up their novels into sections and pace themselves, using Thursday deadlines as their guides. When we are finished with Julius Caesar I will be using Divergent by Veronica Roth as a segue out of Shakespeare and into Young Adult Literature. The final week of classes will serve as a "cool down" from the material. Projects will be presented at the end of the unit.
**Calendar does not account for Spring Break. Should this occur, it will be expected that the students complete their Literary Circle readings in that time and meet for the final week of Literary Circles with their novels 3/4 finished.